As part of the U of I Engineering Senior Capstone Program student teams are required to present a brief 15 minute oral technical presentation to EXPO judges and guests. These technical presentations take place from 9 a.m. until noon during EXPO at several locations within the Bruce M. Pitman Center. A schedule of all technical presentations, times and locations will be posted and available on the day of EXPO.

Technical presentation locations will include: the Borah Theater, Cataldo Room, Silver Room, Gold Room and Vandal Ballroom.

2018 EXPO Technical Presentations

Technical presentations will take place in multiple locations in the Bruce M. Pitman Center between 9 a.m. and noon (Vandal Ballroom, Silver Room, Gold Room, Cataldo Room and Chiefs Room).

Gold Room (Second floor)

Session A – facilitator Feng Li

9 a.m. — Application for Speech Visualization
9:20 a.m. — Modeling and Measurement of Permittivity for Near Space Communications
9:40 a.m. — Advanced Communications System for Suborbital Flight
10 a.m. — TATER (Tamper Analysis via Electromagnetic Responses)

Session B – facilitator Herbert Hess

10:40 a.m. — Mitigating Cyberattacks Caused by Fast Acting Hardware
11 a.m. — Solar Powered Flywheel Energy Storage System
11:20 a.m. — Voltage Source Converter Fault Protection
11:40 a.m. — Non-Wire Solutions to Traditional Power Grid Upgrades

Silver Room (Second floor)

Session A – facilitator Steve Beyerlein

9 a.m. — Boeing Sidewall Lighting Installation
9:20 a.m. — Coffee Roaster Filtration System
9:40 a.m. — SEL Thermal Card Guide
10 a.m. — An Aerodynamic Study of Bulk Commodity Trailers

Session B – facilitator Dan Cordon

10:40 a.m. — Combat Food Insecurity
11 a.m. — Portable Biodiesel
11:20 a.m. — U of I Steam Plant Combustion Instrumentation
11:40 a.m. — Two-Stroke Exhaust Design
Noon — Clean Snowmobile Challenge

Vandal Room South (Second floor)

Session A – facilitator Joel Perry

9 a.m. — Discover Bot: Discovery Center Telerobotics Exhibit
9:20 a.m. — RoboCodo: Post-Surgical Elbow Rehabilitation Device
9:40 a.m. — Project A.R.M.: Assistive Rehabilitation Monitor —
10 a.m. — Aerogel Insulation Study

Session B – facilitator Bruce Bolden

10:40 a.m. — Wireless Tower of Lights
11 p.m. — Personality Analysis Using Machine Learning
11:20 a.m. — Sightless Navigation and Perception (S.N.A.P)
11:40 a.m. — Project VERITAS
Noon — Virtual Control System Network

Chiefs Room (Second floor)

Session A – facilitator Matthew Swenson

9 a.m. — Inconel Tubing Pre-Pullout Grinding and Visual Test System
9:20 a.m. — INL Grinder Water Filtration System
9:40 a.m. — Wireless Forklift Height Encoder
10 a.m. — Compact Robotic Wheel Drive

Session B – facilitator Dev Shrestha

10:40 a.m. — VandalForge Metal Additive Manufacturing - Hardware
11 a.m. — VandalForge Printer Software
11:20 a.m. — Combined Biochar, Heat, and Power System
11:40 a.m. — Team Crumbletech's Temperature Array
Noon — Photo-bioreactor for Microalgae Cultivation

Cataldo Room (Basement)

Session A – facilitator Matthew Bernards

9 a.m. — 99.9 Percent High Purity Nitrogen Generator
9:20 a.m. — Increasing Polystyrene Recycling with Small Scale Depolymerization Reactors
9:40 a.m. — Copper Recovery from Spent Hoof bath Solutions
10 a.m. — Production of Liquid Filled Polymer Microspheres

Session B – facilitator Matthew Bernards

10:40 a.m. — Gypsos Sulfate Removal from Mine-Impacted Waters
11 a.m. — Using NIR Spectroscopy to Control Coffee Roasts
11:20 a.m. — LABRAT, Lead Acid Battery Research And Testing
11:40 a.m. — Bench Top to Industry: Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Starch Pasteurization Unit